Quick update of me Chillies growing in the chilli grow shows that having access to feed and water when they want it means that you get a great number of peppers and strong plants from a really small space
Just occasionally you come across something so simple you wonder why people have not been using it for years. Twine is a garden essential but most of it comes from man made plastics.Twool is compostable,organic natural fibre and biodegrades quickly in the garden and we can all make a small difference by using it for our gardening jobs
Although i say in the intro to this video it climbing and dwarf french beans i also plant Butter Beans which are a type of Runner Bean grown especially for there larger sized beans
The easiest was for most of us for most of us to increase the amount of space we have to grow in is to grow plants vertically. Beans in their many varieties will do this as there normally method of growing is to climb up a support. I filmed this a few weeks ago and will be doing an update shortly to show you how they are growing.
One of the easiest savings we can make in our garden is to produce our own liquid feeds. A variety of plants can be used for this and will give us different feeds suitable for doing different tasks. In my film I cover how to make an early season nitrogen rich feed and two ways of making potassium rich feed which is great for bulking up root crops and onions at this time of the season.
The other fantastic free resource we have which we should make more use of is urine this post explains why